EWN reports that nine Fisheries Department officials will join seven other suspects in the dock at a Hermanus court on Tuesday.  Seventeen suspects were rounded up by the Hawks in an abalone bust on Monday.  

They are thought to be part of a syndicate involved in the illegal poaching and trade of abalone.  The crime fighting unit's Philani Nkwalase indicated:  “The operation is ongoing, and the possibility of more arrests cannot be ruled out.”

• This short report by Shamiela Fisher is at EWN

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